CPEU/CEU: 9
NOTE: Course Expiration Date: 7/28/2028. You have until that date to complete your CPEU Evaluation or Webinar Feedback Survey for this course.

1.1.2 Pursues and embraces opportunities to advance practice.
1.1.5 Integrates new knowledge and skills into practice.
1.1.6 Recognizes and exercises professional judgment within the limits of individual qualifications.
5.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem identification and solving as well as professional judgment to address needs.
5.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision making.
5.1.3 Identifies misinformation and inaccurate information to inform decision-making.
5.2.4 Investigates alternative explanations for deficits or challenges and considers alternative methods, and provides justification for
selected option(s).
5.2.5 Analyzes and synthesizes information and identifies new information, patterns, and findings.
5.2.6 Integrates relevant information with previous learning, experience, professional knowledge, and current practice models.
5.2.8 Evaluates the effectiveness of plans and decisions and makes adjustments when needed.
7.1.2 Uses established guidelines to inform practice.
7.8.1 Masters and maintains current and evidence-based knowledge within subject areas.
9.1.1 Interprets and applies the appropriate evidence-based literature and standards for determining nutritional needs of target audiences.
9.1.2 Integrates knowledge of biological, physical, and social sciences with knowledge of food and nutrition to make decisions related to nutrition care.
9.1.4 Integrates knowledge of macro- and micronutrients for digestion, absorption, and metabolism throughout the lifespan in practice.
9.1.5 Demonstrates knowledge of nutrient requirements throughout the lifespan, and their role in health promotion and disease prevention.
9.2.1 Engages in educational activities to maintain knowledge and to obtain new knowledge of diseases and clinical conditions.
9.2.2 Keeps abreast of and incorporates current evidence-based practice related to the management of diseases and clinical conditions.
9.2.3 Seeks and analyzes new scientific information and how it impacts medical nutrition therapy.
9.2.4 Integrates new knowledge of disease states and clinical conditions into practice.
9.4.1 Gains an understanding of integrative and functional medicine models and interventions, and how these models and interventions are applied to nutrition and dietetics services.
9.4.3 Critically evaluates the safety and efficacy of traditional and pharmaceutical models as it applies to nutrition and dietetics.
9.5.1 Plans and designs nutritionally sound meals, menus, and meal plans that promote health and disease management and meet client needs.
11.2.3 Collects information related to client/patient use of medications, dietary supplements, and integrative and functional medicines to identify potential adverse drug and nutrient interactions.
11.2.5 Conducts nutrition-focused physical examinations and analyzes findings to determine nutritional status.
11.2.8 Recommends and/or orders biochemical tests and analyzes results to provide evidence of a diagnosis and support plans of care.
11.2.12 Analyzes and synthesizes assessment data and findings to provide evidence of nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.15 Evaluate changes in measurable assessment data to communicate progress and/or resolution of nutrition diagnoses.
11.2.16 Compare and evaluate nutrition assessment data against appropriate standards and norms based on the client population, setting, and goals for care.
11.3.1 Establishes goals and desired outcomes in collaboration with clients/patients.
11.3.2 Determines factors impacting client/patient progress in meeting goals and resolving nutrition diagnoses; adjusts nutrition care plans accordingly.
11.3.3 Prioritizes specific nutrition problems to inform nutrition care plans and processes.
11.3.4 Selects interventions intended to resolve or improve nutrition diagnoses through addressing the causes and/or contributing factors.
11.3.6 Develops nutrition prescriptions to communicate clients’/patients’ customized diet, considering client values and nutrition needs.
11.3.7 Recommends nutrition support, therapeutic diets, and dietary and oral nutrition supplements.
11.3.8 Initiates or modifies orders for nutrition support, therapeutic diets, and dietary and oral supplements.
11.4.1 Identifies nutrition-related pharmacological agents and their actions on the body.
11.4.3 Identifies potential food-nutrient drug interactions based on physiological responses to pharmacological agents and takes appropriate action.
11.4.4 Considers client/patient factors, nutritional impacts, indications, side effects, contraindications, benefits, risks, alternatives, and foundational sciences when prescribing, recommending, or administering nutrition-related drug therapy.
11.4.5 Implements, initiates, or modifies nutrition-related pharmacotherapy orders that address client/patient needs.
11.4.6 Monitors responses and effects of nutrition-related drugs and takes required action to make modifications or adjustments to treatment plans.
11.4.7 Evaluates, educates, and counsels on the interrelationship and impact of pharmacotherapy on nutrients.
11.5.3 Adjusts interventions based on client/patient progress in meeting established goals and resolving nutrition diagnoses.
13.4.2 Applies knowledge of local and global food markets, food production systems, and nutrition regulations.